Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged Techfest
Last Day with Warlick and off to Bali!
Feb 16th
Dear David,
I just wanted to send my deepest gratitude for spending this week with our staff here at SAS. You left the staff wanting more and pondering Web 2.0, redefining literacy, and getting into the whole digital world. The talk in the hallways, in the classrooms, and the fact that my session titled “Let’s Blog” went from 10 people to 25 because of your keynote is testament in itself. Today we brought 25 more teachers into the blogosphere. Now how many of them will continue with it? I’m not sure, but at least they have been exposed and the conversation More >
Day four with Warlick
Feb 16th
WOW is all that describes Warlick’s keynote. Anytime a keynote speaker can run a half hour late (no fault of David’s…herding teacher’s is like herding cats)and still have teachers talking about his message on an hour bus ride home is an exciting day! Before I get to far here are my notes for the second half of the keynote.
Telling the New Story
Education needs to model what our workforce needs.
Uses Thomas Freidman’s book The World is Flat book and the story of his Dell laptop as a story of our workplace today.
Global cooperation not global competition…and interesting theory.
OK, so More >
First half notes from Warlick’s keynote
Feb 15th
Tags: redefine literacy warlick
What do we do with all this information. If 0.01% is only in print and we do not have access to digital information?
Are we asking this question in every lesson that we teach: “Is this preparing our students for THEIR future?”
To be literate today mean more than being able to read. It means being a “digital detective”
Make numbers tell there story…I struggle with helping math teachers to integrate technology. What I need to remember is “how do we make these numbers tell their story?” No matter what the math subject, numbers have a story…as an educator our More >
Day three with Warlick
Feb 15th
Another great day with David. My morning started off with this e-mail from one of the teachers from yesterday’s session:
I just wanted to tell you how inspiring David Warlick’s blog session was yesterday. Seriously, I am totally psyched to use blogs in ESOL next year. The session also gave me a starting point for doing a little catch-up in tech. I know I’m woefully uninformed at this point, but until yesterday I didn’t know what I didn’t know. At least now I realize one way to better make use of tech in the classroom.
That’s exactly what we were looking for. More >
Day two with Warlick
Feb 13th
I can’t believe it’s only Tuesday and I’m not the one presenting. Today David did 4 sessions for teacher and then a parent night. Getting home around 8:30pm, I’m sure he’s sleeping well.
If you EVER get the chance to have David do a parent presentation at your school do it! Although it wasn’t a very good turn out, the word will spread like it does in a parent community about the message that came across.
“My dad could get down and play Legos with me, I can’t play my son’s toys with him…everything has changed.”
That statement was met with a lot More >
First day with Warlick
Feb 12th
Well we’re through the first day of David Warlick’s visit. He did three sessions on Harnessing the Digital Landscape with our teachers and one Video Games in education….and today is a light day for him. When we bring speakers in..which isn’t very often, we tend to have them going full on and David is no exception.
One thing that struck me today about David’s video gaming session was when he stated:
Bring the parts of a game that engages students into the classroom.
A classroom that is
responsiveconversable Rewardspersonal investmentIdentity BuildingDependability
Interesting….I’m looking at these five skills that students get from video games…then I look at the More >
Recap of work
Jan 25th
I swear I passed myself in the hallway today. The last two weeks have been a whirl wind but I wanted to take some time at 11pm tonight to actually reflect on the past two weeks and some fun and amazing stuff that is going on here.
Last week I set up all 3 of my classes with a netvibes account (RSS reader). This week we started taking the first 10 minutes of each tech class to read through our feeds. We learned all sorts of stuff. A strange shark found off of Japan. Parents suing Myspace, we get the latest football More >
